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|title=Look Who's Back
|author=Timur Vermes
|publisher=MacLehose Press
|date=April 2014
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857052926</amazonuk>
|amazonus=<amazonus>0857052926</amazonus>
|website=
|video=
|summary=A well-crafted, and crafty, novel which disproves several stereotypes about the Germans – you can mention the War, and they do have a sense of humour.
|cover=Vermes_Look
|aznuk=0857052926
|aznus=0857052926
}}
''Hitler Youth Ronaldo! Which way to the street?'' With these words a very misguided Nazi Fuhrer asks for his first directions in the Berlin of 2011. Mistakenly believing the lad to be a party junior member with his own name on his football shirt, he also thinks for a while it is still 1945. He's soon informed of the truth, but still makes some unfortunate conclusions – that the street kiosks selling Turkish language newspapers are a sign of a Soviet-beating alliance between the two countries, that people eat granola bars because the war still leads to a bread shortage, and that people making an ironic speech bubble with their fingers in the air is all that is left of the Hitler salute. But yes, after a long hiatus neither he nor our author is particularly concerned with explaining, ''that man'' is back – and if he has his way he's going to be just as popular this time round…

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